Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-18

| LCueeTS. our COuQLrymen IN Canada
have had much more serious and sub
( stantial social and political risks than that
to face in taking our part and arrsying
themselves with US against the powerful
i influences which are against us in Can
ada to-day. 1t is easy enough to
| find superficial friends, but this
J is matter which tests to
the core the sincerity and sympathy
of our people in Canada in their love of
Ireland. TCheers and applause The
old instincts of your Irish hearts burst
through every difficulty and danger to be
with US in our struggle in behalf of poor
and oppressed Ireland. Loud cheers&nd
some boots. God bless you and God
prosper you for the good will the whole
of the Canadian people have shown
cheersl, for the fair play they have
given me. Renewed cheers. The more
this subject is argued out in a reasonable
way by reasonable men and by intelligent
and liberty loving men, the more will the
stamp of public condemnation and repro
baton be put upon Lord LansdoWne's
unjust action cheers and some hooting ;,
and the sooner will the poor people of
Lugga Curran return once more to their
humble homes in peace and in triumph
with blessings on your heads.
Loud and prolonged cheering,
hmingled with some boots.
DISORDERLY MEETING.
| TORONTO, ONT, May I7.-Never in the
worst days of the Belfast disorders was 9
scene of more diSgraCeful roWdyism eX-
| hiDited than that shown this afternoon in
| Queens park, where crowd of Toronto
| Orangemen attempted to storm the plat
form and failing in that, to choke OFF all
possibility of O'Brien being heard by
keeping up a continual din of grooming,
Kissing and cries of "God save the
! Queen" "Rule Britannia" 1t was
O'Clock when the crowd had
about fully collected and it then
| seemed fair estimate to set the
number present st $4,000, although peo-
pie kept pouring in in such foods from
all quarters after the meeting had begun,
! that there were times when 10000 persons
would not be an over estimate. Many
| banks in the city were closed and the
students of the university were let loose.
Many Of these mingled with crowds OF
| esperate-lo0kingr Oughs whose only glory
| in. life seemed to be row. The first de-
mOnstration came from q solitary man at
the left hand side of the platform, who
stood upon the stump of tree and began
grooming at the meeting and ct those on
the platform, as though his life depended
on the effort. Near him was woman Wav-
| ing green branch in her hand, and no
sooner had she seen the obstreperous
Orangemen than she ran
THE BUTT OF THE TWIG
down his throat, which effectually choked
Off the disturber. amid roar of applause
from the crowd and cries of "God save
Ireland" A rush was made for the
woman, but she was among her friends,
and the surging wave of thousands drove
back her WOuld-be assailarts. At this
moment Mr.. 0'Brien entered the park in
a carriage. One hundred and fifty police
men in charge of Lieutenant Grassett
were scattered through the crowd or
were drawn up in files on the out
skirts. Sergeant Seymour was IN charge
of the squad of mounted men,
and when the disturbance and
attempted breaking up of the
meeting took place the officers most de-
terminedIy took their place and remained
there from the beginning to the end of
The policemen quietly folded their arms
and said not word. In all the disturb
ers did not number more than sixty per-
sons, and many of them were armed with
sticks. Two sycamore trees in front of
the platform were taken possession of by
q crowd of young roughs, who Kissed out
INTO THE SPEAKERS FACES
during the greater part of the time until
few powerful men among the National
lists caught mold of the trunks of the
trees and shook the disturbers to the
ground. This seemed to anger the Or
angemen, who knocked down one or two
of the Nationalist with the blows OF
their clubs The NatiOnists in return
used their fists very effectively.
Police Inspector Archibald and Dep
uty Chief Stuart, who were in company
with Colonel Grossett smiled in the most
good natGred way and used no effort az
all to drive of the rOwdies who pressed
with might and main to reach the front
of the platform, but in vain. With the
exception of e couple Of charges by single
policemen on horseback, no attempts
was made to interfere with the rioters
The representatives of American news
papers who surrounded O'Brien on the
platform were plying their pencils .Vigor-
ouslY. Presently the Orsngemen, by one
supreme effort, were nearly gaining their
point by displacing the Nationelists and
reaching the front of the platform, when
the Americans signsIed to the Nation
alists
TO KEEP THEIR PLACES.
This suggestion which was entirely in
the interest of peace, because if the
Orangemen reached that spot, bloody
time would certainly have ensued, so
angered some of the policemen on the
platform that they threatened to
throw them head over heels to the
ground if they attempted any such
signal again. The Orangemen roared
themselves hoarse amid the frantic cheers
and yellers who shouted in derisive cheers
at those on the platform: "Pay your rent'
"Hurrah for Lansdowne," and "God
save the Queen!" The first signal to in
terrupt by groaning ana singing "God
save the Queen" was given on the ap-
pearance of J "A. MuIligan, President of the
local branch of the League, as
chairman of the meeting, but he held out
sturdily, as did O'Brien and Kilbride, and
IN the end the following resolution was
passed, amid al outburst OF cheering
from the thousands and groans from the
groups of Orangemen:
That this meeting Of the citizensi